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f 1 Â£ t Â® y 8 fol xxl no 23 third series salisbury n c thursday march 27 1890 j j bbuneb editor and prop'r t k bruner assistant editor general diilgtory roc xt 1 govbrxmexft â– â– superior < ourt j m huralu i cc krider _ ; fte*isti i of weeds 11 n \\ oodson lyeasdrer 1 mticubbins gurveyor 1 c arey | r i a atwell | ( iers t .' stimner chairman {, kin g v baker dr l w cole j ik-liui ki'-tlcr it su p public schools t c linn u,,j,s f health i r 1 .' suinmerelli i poor a m limn n tows \\ ,.. . i')i:i h < rawford i . \\ \< liiii | i h foust i . |; w price chief j f pace < 1 Â«â€¢ )',,,,.. u m barrinjjer benj cauble ,-., : mers n'orth ward 1 a ren ,. j em au i m miller south ward i h julian j a barrett i'.a-i ward 1 i ( Â» tior don t a coujihenour v r e8t ward jt j r hol'wcs 1 w kumplc | â€” - cuv homes methodisl services every sunday ai ) jl a ni and i p in l'rajer meeting j every wednesday at 6-j p m rev t wj . . pastor -| sundita school every sunday afternoon a t :: o'clock 1 w mauney sup't i presbyterian services every sunday it 11 a in and v ]â€¢ m prayer meeting evfcr j wi dnesday at 8:30 i m rev 1 ruraplo l>li pastor jj sunday school ev ry sunday 1 afternoon ; it 4 p hi 1 lluinple sup't || lutheran services every sunday at 11 i am and 7 pm i'rayer meeting every wednesday at 7 p^n rev chas i king 1 pastor i sunday school oven sunday afternoon i at :; i in it < i ki/.lt sup't k]ii-cu].al ser ices e cry sunday at 1 1 i in and 1>:3u p m and wednesday at 0:30 i in lii-v f .) murdoch rector | sunday school every sunday afternoon 1 : it :: p in . capt theo parker sup't i baptist services every sunday morn ing and night prayer meeting every wednesday night rev ) pastor i sunday school every sunday at \<\ a.m thus 1 swink sup't catholic services every second sun i day at luj a m and 7 p in rev francis ; meyer pastor sunday school every sunday at 10 a m " v m i \ devotional services at hull everj sunday at 10 a m business meet i in tirsi thursday niulit in every mouth s 1 ii foust pres't lodges i fulton lodge xo 99 a f & am meets \ every first und third friday night in eaeh month k 15 ea\v w m salisbury lodge no l'l k of i meets % very tuesday 7 night a h boyden c c j salisbury i^odge no 77 k of ii meets \ every 1st and 3d monday night in each \ month , dictator , salisbury council no 272 royal ar : eanum meets eycry 2d and itli monday ; night in each month j a ramsay : regent i post office office hours from 7:30 a in to 5:30 p m money order hours 'â– ' a m to '< p m j sunday hours 11:30 a m to 1l';.';o p m j ii ramsay 1 m c royal bakinq absolutely pyre ! â– â– i varies a in trvelol purity 'â– li ilesomeness more economical in kinds nnd eannoi be sold in ivlilii lie mull liinl ol low lest . shori â– phospbate powders sold onlj in iu ki i ikimi i'owueh i o..106w allst n binghnm & co young & bos - p murphy : lau 1 1 iv w.l.douflÂ»b name and j * xu11 price lire ntbinp 1 '' <>Â» the bottom if the dealer cannot mipuly you riiil direct lo fmtory cnrloslnk udvvrtlied prlc w l douclas 3 shoe 0e nt f l e r men 1 "" alf m.-:ivy laced c;rain ami t'reod moor u'ati'rurooc , . llÂ«~t in i|,i world kinmlne 1,1 *;â€¢.Â«Â« gen tine ii an d si a iii l.t'oe i ,>Â»> iiam1-siÂ£\vki will mltlv k|.r,o i'oi.icp and i ainu its si-.oe p â€¢â€¢â– "' i i i;a vai.uk < ai r smok â€¢â– ' -'â€¢". \ s woiikinomkn's shoks 83.011 and 81.7s isoys school mioe8 1.78 siiok fok misses li.kt material hint style 15<Â»t ilttlog w l uoiifus brockton maun told by m b brown the old gray coat ii v v i it it i > i s . i tin garrcl it was resting in the bottom of a trunk . an tit years il had been hidden in the dcepcsl iuniin-r slink as \ raise it slowly gently h!tic leafs rushed to niv rve !- < > r it irtottght ba k tecohettton \ which though sleeping never diesi ; as 1 pressed my lips iipdh it k soft n voice v itliin il spoke . it nl first seemed misty dfeatttjr rut at last it full awoke " whefe and why ] pray you toll we ; at i resting quiet nov 1 $ and the w.i in which i came liofe â– w ill i mi please inform hie how 1 " y oil were placet hete by your master \\ hen he round no use for you and why i'd have you toll me could 1 nothing further do ? i â€¢â– did i not through toilsome marches ever stay dose by hi side '.' i)iil i not the scorching sunshine and the bitter blast abide " did i ever brink from bullets 1 > i < 1 i ever seem to fvar when the bayonets clashed around me or tin bomb shells bursted near â€¢â– was 1 not it faithful servant 1 will 1 not my duty well ? why then am i thus discarded ? i entreat you now to tell " tis because the war is over y/es the fighting all is done : for the northern army conquered and the country now u one 1 i â€¢â€¢ well luit where are lee and jackson with their rrmics strong and brave j they have fought their linul battle k they nr 1 sleeping in their graves but not all not all most surely ? rr there not a number left who have not with courage parted jf a nd are not of honor reft '.' \ cannot these with southern valor \ i sw cep the land from sea to sea and from ev'ry hated foeman \ thus the southern nation free r i ; â€¢â– but the south is not a nation i ami tiii war is long since o'er 1 and i tell you peace is reigning 'â€¢ through the land from shore to shore 'â– did ray ma3ter e'er surrender \ sure he died upon the field ; for i know that he would never , for a moment deign to yield f â€¢â€¢ bui he did indeed surrender i ; and lie preaches now the word \, lie s an active earnest worker in the vineyard if his lord â€¢â€¢ then you once again may fold me : ] you may let me dream again {' j for i want no peace that hinds me ,'â– with a slave's degrading chain ! i â€” â€” â€” o â– â€” â€” â€” -- to be shot at noon a true story of the late war i never mind what my business was or how 1 was betrayed and how i was gathered in enough that they bag ged me iso miles inside the enemy's lines and hustled me oil to prison at fort me henry in the balti more harbor where i was confronted ( with the charge of being a spy no matter that i had on when captured my full uniform as captain no mat ter that at my court martial trial their own officer who captured me testified that he did not take me in as a spy and that there was no work for a spy where he captured me i no matter 1 was found guilty and the sentence was read to me to be hanged as a spy on the parade ground of fort mt 1 1 en rv between the hours 1 of 12 a in and 3 p m november 3d 1863 < â– , in answer to my request that if they must kill me for the sake of honor to give me the death of a soldier they graciously changed the papers to read to be shot to death with musketry on the parade ground etc j somehow 1 did not fully compre-j lieml or adequately appreciate the situ ation for i did not feel then any more than 1 do now that death was to be my next deal i nor hail i at all contemplated that result all through the trial only the last day before the sentence was read to me i had been creating merriment by asking puzzling or irrelevant ques â€¢ tions of the judge advocate telling i jokes during the recesses of the oourt r in divers manners creating fun tod raw | . rairth-for myself out of the barren ; rock " military justice only the ' d iv before the president of the court martial the colonel of the regiment 12 of whose officers composed my adjudi cators asked to talk a little with me [ in private as between man and man l " of course i " captain said he i greatly fear j you do not properly appreciate your i present situation & well colonel i know of no man more favorably situated to realize it â€¢ why do you say so " l 'â€¢ because ir your life is at stake in this trial | well i â€¢â€¢ well you'll be found guilty most assuredly of the charge b weil k " you'll be sentenced to die fj well i and vou'll be hanged or shot and here you have been spending the leisure j hums of the court trying you for your i life in frivolous jesting and mirth a a fellow nÂ«an it grieves me to see you carelessly playing at s 1 terrible a brink us you stand on 11 colonel was th<3 reply u t thank you for yoi\r interest if we are nation al enemies \ on speak as a man and a soldier hut let me say this now i canttot explain what induced me to mak the following foolish braggish speech but it bubbled up and was spoken Â») oolonek vou or t may die before hight - we do not know but insofar as your courts finding is concerned ijj shall 1)0 alive when you and yourjj twelve officers are dead and forgotten 1 '! he left me in disgust and i don'ta blame him hut such was my feeling i did not feel it in my bones as the slang goes that death was so near i the colonel and the entire twelve composing the court died before i wast exchanged shot to death in one charge at cold harbor i live to write the occurrence 20 years after the con-g yersation | it may or may not be true when the grim monster singles out his victim he sends him in some way a spiritual pre monition that he is g'Â»ing to let fly | from death's quiver the fatal dart be that as it may i had no premoni . tiou of death * j not when they stood me up to hear niv sentence and to answer nor after ward in the cool contemplation my silent dungeon afforded not when thel officer of the day on that eventfu 1 ex-g edition morning read to me in my dungeon the days program and de-j lineated my doom to the hands of 12 detailed soidiers he found me ivhis-l tling as i paced my narrow cell thatg morning and exclaimed in surprise good god captain what kind of n man are you " u '" oh 1 don't know skin and honejj flesh and sinews blood and bile.b why f " why don't you know you are tol be shot to-day outside here are â– twelve men detailed to scud you into eternity you'll never see another morning and you are whistling " well why not whistle as long nsf possible and cry when you cannot laugh 1 | j hence i may not lie able to tell vf"i just how a man feels who stares death calmly in the face for may be i did t not comprehend my situation | : i hut 1 was sentenced to death that i ii fully comprehend when hey marched i hip handcuffed between two guards | with arms at charged and bayonets fix ed back to the prison and instead of my former 12x12 cell barred nd bolt ed me in a dark underground dungeon 1,3x10 feet with a tub occupying twos feet of that sparse space significantly suggestive that i w;ts to stay i"ighlj Â£ there until the day and hour $ the sentence was fully realized dur-j ; ing the sunless days and no darker inighfcs of the weeks that followed the post chaplain's was the only hn-i small voice i heard for weeks and his lonly once for my levity shocked him j*so that he gave me up as an unredeera-i fable reprobate 1 le offered a prayer for i courteously kneeling with himl the same floor hut lie never camel again he told me â€” what my occasionally i fallowed letters from my friends had iplainly informed me â€” that there was ino hope for escape from the fate that f seemed to them and the outside world to be staring me in the face every possible effort had been made every | influence pressed into service g with the president and he had positive ly declined interfering with the judg iinent of the court martial the words of the chaplain corroborated their sadj said he | captain you should prepare for fdeath for your life ends in a few days | finally it came shall i ever forgets ithat november morning in 1863 they had told me i should be taken | out at 0 o'clock in the morning and | fjwould be allowed an officer's room j | in the barracks where my parents j f sisters and brothers would meet and spend the last moments with me | when taken out they had to seat me in the outer guard room a quarter of i ian hour until my eyes became accus tomed to thepiep ing glare of sunshine then they took me to the room ; i where i found father mother sisters brother8 and a minister it was the ? quarters of an officer of the post and very comfortably furnished i lust outside we could see them ; through the window â€” stood a specials detail of twelve men selected as the lunwilliug executors of the condemned small | 1 telling me that i should live untiljj the last minute before 3 o'clock butj j then would have to go the colonel | â€¢ locked the door and left me with myl friends f 4 they had secured the privilege of jj ? spending these last hours with me â€” ij r knew to comfort and console perhaps Â« to strengthen me for the fearful ordeal through which 1 had to pass hut 1 f had to console them mv father was broken down it | must be a horrid strain on a father's \ feelings to sit and look at his son in the prime of manhood and count off the few intervening minutes of that boy's remaining life i brothers and sisters could only gaze at me in speechless misery appalled by the gloom v shadow of death that was : then casting about me i 1 hud to become consoler and strain * cd every nerve called forth every pow er to smile 1 would not permit the trembling man of god to offer prayer knowing that his words would fall upon those loving ears as death wails as clods falling on my coftin i drew them by everything interesting i could think of to contemplate anything but the impending doom as i was about to proceed the little clock on the mantel would strike or a footstep on the stair outside or some movement of the garrison would recall them with a sigh to the horrid present the little clock on the mantel seemed to me in these intervals to tick as loud ly as the clatter of a mill it struck the half hours as well as the full stroke and it seemed to me its little whirr would buzz and the tiny hammer strike every five minutes 10 10:80 11 11:30 12 12:30 1 heavens how it ticked off the sec onds galloped the seconds and startled our pained ears with those fleeting half hours we were seated around the room close to each other as we could get father on one side of me mother on the other a hand clasped by each as the little monitor on the mantel broke the gathering stillness with its metal voice crying the half hours gone just then a step sounded without a hand touched the knob the key turned in the lock the door was thrown open and the colonel stood looking in upon us instinctively i jumped to my feet as father and mother sprang to my side a hand upon each shoulder how rapidly thought does its office in such emergencies my thought was " their dining hour approaches and these officers wish to get through this unpleasant duty be fore dinner for a minute â€” it seemed eternity and that the little clock had ceased to tell the time â€” we stood the colonel and myself silent gazing sternly at each other he evidently expected me to speak but i did not would not at length he slowly drew from his pocket a slip of paper and saving captain 1 have just received thi jtelcgram reading while we gazed jupuii him in strained listening earnest biiess '" the execution of the sentence in thej case of captain william f gorden iss postponed until further orders by order of the president " you may stay with your friends until 3 then you must go back to â– your cell he said closing the door and left us hurriedly father drew a long trembling sigh and sank slowly to the floor where | mother had already fallen their sup-j port was gone the sudden unlonkedjj for lightning of the cloud of death the rush of relief from the horrid night mare caused a revulsion of feeling that ; made me limp as a rag weak as a dying j babe aud 1 too sank between myl parents the minister said something i didj not hear brothers and sisters knelt around as rind i heard the preacher pouring out a prayer of gratitude that ' the dark shadow of death had passed by leaving the light of life my sentence of death was commuted to imprisonment and labor during the war but it was life making odd moments pay a boy was employed in a lawyer's office and he had the daily newspaper to amuse himself with he began to study french and at the lutle desk became a fluent reader and writer off the french language he accomplish ed tin's by laying aside the newspaper and taking up something not so au.us ing but far more profitable a coachman was often obliged to wait long hours while his mistress made calls iih determined to improve the time he found a small volume containing the eclogues of virgil abut could not read it so he purchased a latin grammar day by day he istudied this and finally mastered its intricacies his mistress came behind him one day as he stood by the horses waiting for her and asked him what he was o intently reading only a bit of k virgil my lady " what ! do you read latin " a little my lady she mentioned this to her husband who insisted that david should have a teacher to instruct him in a few years david became a learned man and was for many years a useful and be loved minister of scotland a boy was told to open and shut the gates to let the teams out of an iron mine he sat on a log all day by the side of the gate sometimes an hour would pass before the teams came and this he employed so well that there was scarcely any fact in history that escaped his attention he began with a little book on english history that he found on the road having learned that thoroughly he borrowed of a niin lister " goldsmith's history of greece ', ithis good man became greatly inter jested in him nnd lent him books and was often seen sitting by bun on the flog conversiug with him about the ? people of ancient times j boys it will pay you to use your ; leisure moments well | bate rat traps with sunflower seed uf which it is said they are very fond j the mountain meadow massacre sayixg the poor chilerejs whose par en'ts were slaughtered nashville american harrison ark march 12 it is said the people of the united states are a most forgiving people i was re minded of this to-day when in com pany with a friend we called on a lady who as an infant was in the moun itain meadow massacre which is by far the most atrocious to my know ledge ever committed in the united states and of which by the present generation so little is known his tory is almost silent in regard to it and i write only to recall a few of the Â» points as a large pfr centage of the actors were originally from the state gof tennessee in april 1857 capt baker assisted iby capt fancher organized an emi sgrant party for california of near 400 souls starting from carrollton ark in the above month the country was made up principally of families but with a small contingent of stock men the entire party was thoroughly equipped with large herds of cattle and horses for breeding purposes and every wagon was drawn by splendid mules bought in tennessee and kentucky for that purpose it is said to have been the best equipped train that ever crossed the plains a number of the party had crossed before and had lands sal ready located nothing of interest occurred until ithey reached salt lake city where jjthe warm southern blood of capt haker was aroused at some remark made to one of the ladies of his party he with a bull whip vigorously pun ished the offender his keen eye soon jdetected danger and the party hastily ipulled out when be reached moun rtain meadow west of salt lake evi idences of danger were observed on severy side his experience soon con evinced him that what appeared to be cl julians was in fact mormons dis iouised he had no sooner packed his strain in a hollow square than they at 1 itacked him with great fury his men j fought like demons and brave maker j land francher were always in the thick jest of of the fight the first day he kept bis women \ sand children in the centre but on the | isecond day so many men were kil'.edg that the women were forced to take \ their place and stood the storm of bat j tie like trained veterans it is said : that a woman would pull the dead body of iipi husband out of her way ami take his place behind a wagon h-ifle in hand late in the afternoon it he mormons cut them off from water during the whole of the second and third day these brave women would divide their time between fighting the ! enemy and nursing their infants on the third day they themselves their children and their stock were almost famished with hunger and thirst the mormons made overtures iifor their surrender the gallant ha nker ottered himself if his party would be spared nothing save an absolute surrender but with the proviso of the safety of the entire party and half the stock would be listened to which capt baker reluctantly agreed to with great forebodings of danger and treachery on the part of the mormons lie stacked arms and inarched the remnant of his company out the momons forming on one side heavily armed at a given signal every mormon fired each one killing an emigrant i brave b?Â«ker and fancher being the first to fall with knife and gun they did not stop until every emigrant was dead who was old enough to give evidence women were horribly but chered while hugging their babes to their bosoms a number of infant children were left on the field and 3 were found in a wagon whose parents had been killed in a half-starved con-i dition and taken off when the news reached this section a howl of rage went up the united states government sent gen albert sidney johnson with a force to utah territory with what results history states " col mitchell of arkansas raised a regiment and tendered their services for the expedition but were refused ostensibly by the secre-i itarv of war as the government had plenty of troops but really as col.l watkins informs me that they wen afraid of the result if the arkansas boys should ever reach the 5cene of the murder indignation was at fever heat in northwest arkansas leading men conspicuous amongst them was col watkins kept the matter before fthe public but litttle however was until a few years later icol forney of - v my two papers both daily notoriety succeeded in getting an act of congress commissioning him land col mitchell to go t(j utah and look after the children the f found on reaching salt lake city that t the mormons demanded a ransom claiming that the indians had them land would not give them up uhl f paid for congress appropriated the ( money cols forney and mitchell t reached kansas city when col kÂ«Â»r iney turned the children over tu col mitchell to be delivered to friends were sent ahead infonniugl the people the day they would reach , carrol it oh whence the emigrant party had tailed ill i8o7 ft carrollton ii a small h,anjdei of pei-j haps a dozen families and no larger then but the day when the childnnf got here was a great one for that lit-1 tie village an<l is referred to i.ow as ai date oftener than the war an im-i mense barbecue was prepared with col w atkins as speaker sncb crowds of people were never seen in this por-j tion of the state it was estimated at 1o.(mk and all came by wagon and horse-back as at that time there was not a railroad nearer than memphis several hundred miles away for a mile in every direction from the village people were camped eating and sleep ing as best they could it is told that not a single instance i of extortion was known the citizens even giving rather than to sell col.l dinton is said to have given away anl entire corn crop to feed horses the road for miles was full of weeping women who had gone out to meet the children some more impatient than others went up the road fifty miles | to where eureka springs now stands to meet them so that when col mit-i chell reached carrollton his command i was as large as the emigrant trainl which went out to describe the scene when he stop-a ped his wagon in sight of that vast multitude beggars description to divide and have each child prop-l erlv identified was a matter of utteri impossibility every device known tol anxious relatives was adopted sol anxious was every one for one of thej children that col mitchell had often to interfere think of forty child-1 ren with at least 2,000 people wanting them col mitchell recognized a little broken armed girl as his brother's child by the assistance of an old lady who had aten the baby before the emigrants started and remembered a certain mark on the child which corresponded wit hi one on its murdered mother after an incredi table amount of labor their complete identity has never been fully | settled some years alter a young man who had assumed his fostei-fath er's name became engaged to be mar ried investigation so nearly estab lish the fact that they were brother and sister that the tender relation was j ubandened and the other assumed \ which continues to this day she is one of them children re marked an old man to me a few days since pointing to a matronly-looking women of about 3-j or 40 who was sitting on the other side of the room busy halt-soling a pair of boy's pants i reckon their ain't no mistake about her being my grand-daughter le;ist wise i set as much store by her a3 if she was anyhow they found good homes and some of the best people of boone and car roll counties now were amongst the children returned by col mitchell since the war the government investi-j gated the murder and elder lee t the mormon church who headed thej murderers was tried condemned and hanged on the very spot where lie hadjj murdered the emigrants he is said bv some to be the one so vigorously castigated by capt baker for his in sulting language to one of the lady emigrants the above facts are mostly gathered from col win w atkins who during the entire excitement was a potent factor in restoring the little waifs to their friends the day the chil dren got here is a date known to everyone col watkins was born in tennessee and is a brother to the late judge watkins a diem her of the fed eral congress from tennessee when the war broke out when quite a youth he turned his face toward the ettiiig sun he parted the cane itijj west tennessee and arkansas and made his way over the trackless wild-1 erness of this section i'ulling up to the front soon after reaching here wa held various offices of honor 1862 found him a member of the confederate congress loyal to the trust confi ded to him by his people he remained until driven from richmond by tin federal troops it is said that he ami fhis family were forced to travel afoot ai igreat portion of the route to k:i>t tennessee in isc with the assis-1 tauce of his brother and an old aimyl mule a broken express was rigged up and he again started west much poor er than when as a boy he did the samef thing thirty years before witl.o it a cent of money he left the shores of his beloved arkansas hardly had he lie come settled than he was again called to assume public trust he was de posed bv clayton but upon the ac cession of democracy was time and again honored when old age begun to bear heavily on him he voluntarily retired from an active and usefull life full of honor and high in the estima tion of h\s fellow-citizens he is now not fa.r from his 80th mile post and with a competency devotes himself to improving hi estate and reading his mind is a store-house of knowledge and is as clear and active as in youth he is jiiit-.tly and complacently wait ing for the gnm reaper to come vldettk everything comes and goes 1 o d.i in joy to-morrow in sorrow we advance we repe.it we struggle then the eternal and profound sileuce of deutb photograph of lightning ia one of the new things of the tunes cause unknown one day as we were riding through the country buck of natchez we came upon a whiteman sitting on a log with a switch in his hand while tied to a tree near by was a colored boy about l years old natural enough we stopped to inquire what it all intant ami the man replied i'm a-trying to find out what this ere nigger has done with my mewl 11 nebber seed his mewl replied the boy yes ye did ye lump o darkness 1 in giwne to give you five minutes ma fur to tell me and then i'll put on the switch who is he asked the colonel oh he hangs areund vere u do you know that he stole your mule in co'se thot is if he didn's who did xcbher dun stole his mewl pro tested the boy shet them five minutes is about up "\\ hat sort of a mule was it asked the colonel sort o small and lean and yaller k a strap around his neck sartin well he's lying dead in a ditch two miles down the road shoo dead is he he i reckoned he was dead or stole but wanted to be shore of it now doy you kin go but don't you dun git into no ich scrape again the boy went off with a grin on his face and we had been talking with til man for about five minutes when he suddenly junijÂ»ed clear of the ground and yelled what a him-haw i am to be shore yer i've dun let that nigger make a skip when 1 ortcr put on the switch till i found out what that ere mewl died of cruel business the practice of thrashing the patient ox to increase his speed or whacking him across the nose when he is desired to stop is certainly not the character ise of a good teamster any inure than the habit of yanking twitching and whipping the horse is the indication of a g 1 driver if a man addicted to this method of driving will harness himself to a rig and with his eyes blinded a harsh bit in his mouth and a person with the reins and a rawhide behind him who when he wishes him to start gives him a cut with the raw hide when he would hare the speed in creased gives him several additional cuts and when he wants him to stop yanks the reins with force enough to nearly break his jaw he will appreciate this style of driving and knowing how it is himself will doubtless correct hist method there is nothing more unreasonable or wasteful then this style of managing horses good sense requires that a horse be started urged forward and stopped by the void 1 , and that resort should never be had to the whip unless absolutely necessary a horse then knows what is required of him and the annoying and dangerous habit of suddenly starting and jumping is ayoid ed a great majority of the spatins sprains and ringbones not to speak of the heayes and numerous other horse ailments are caused by this rough and thoughless driving a marvelous lace wonder is reported as landed in the united states it is a unique specimen of embroidery and irish lace specially manufactured for the great international exhibition of 1851 at which it took a first prize lit took twelve girls twelve months to imake this perfect specimen of the old hand embroidery and lace trade of ireland the cost was 2,000 no work of to-day is so fine and exquisite as the drawn and embroidered border of this wonder the main design is t chaplet of fern leaves entwined with the rose the shamrock and the thistle the authorities say that the dura tion of a lightning hash is not infinite sinal but that the flash lasts a measur able time for example if one sets a camera in rapid vibration and exposes in it a plate so as to receive the im pression ot the flash it is found that the impressions appear widened out oil the negative showing the negative to have moved during the time the flash was in existence the best way to preserve cut flowers is to pack them in ice a good way is to pack them in a tin can covering the stem with moist cotton with a layer of wet cotton over all a much larger proportion of ordi uarv seed would germinate if more care were exercised in preparing tin seed-bed the finer the soli the better the seed will germinate srrew nails for timber are now made without cutting the metal by rolling wire of nit open hearth steel in a eries of dies until the thread is sufficiently form d we can do without any article of lttx.ury we've never had but when omse obtained it is not in human na ture to surrender it voumtaxily

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f 1 Â£ t Â® y 8 fol xxl no 23 third series salisbury n c thursday march 27 1890 j j bbuneb editor and prop'r t k bruner assistant editor general diilgtory roc xt 1 govbrxmexft â– â– superior < ourt j m huralu i cc krider _ ; fte*isti i of weeds 11 n \\ oodson lyeasdrer 1 mticubbins gurveyor 1 c arey | r i a atwell | ( iers t .' stimner chairman {, kin g v baker dr l w cole j ik-liui ki'-tlcr it su p public schools t c linn u,,j,s f health i r 1 .' suinmerelli i poor a m limn n tows \\ ,.. . i')i:i h < rawford i . \\ \< liiii | i h foust i . |; w price chief j f pace < 1 Â«â€¢ )',,,,.. u m barrinjjer benj cauble ,-., : mers n'orth ward 1 a ren ,. j em au i m miller south ward i h julian j a barrett i'.a-i ward 1 i ( Â» tior don t a coujihenour v r e8t ward jt j r hol'wcs 1 w kumplc | â€” - cuv homes methodisl services every sunday ai ) jl a ni and i p in l'rajer meeting j every wednesday at 6-j p m rev t wj . . pastor -| sundita school every sunday afternoon a t :: o'clock 1 w mauney sup't i presbyterian services every sunday it 11 a in and v ]â€¢ m prayer meeting evfcr j wi dnesday at 8:30 i m rev 1 ruraplo l>li pastor jj sunday school ev ry sunday 1 afternoon ; it 4 p hi 1 lluinple sup't || lutheran services every sunday at 11 i am and 7 pm i'rayer meeting every wednesday at 7 p^n rev chas i king 1 pastor i sunday school oven sunday afternoon i at :; i in it < i ki/.lt sup't k]ii-cu].al ser ices e cry sunday at 1 1 i in and 1>:3u p m and wednesday at 0:30 i in lii-v f .) murdoch rector | sunday school every sunday afternoon 1 : it :: p in . capt theo parker sup't i baptist services every sunday morn ing and night prayer meeting every wednesday night rev ) pastor i sunday school every sunday at \Â» the bottom if the dealer cannot mipuly you riiil direct lo fmtory cnrloslnk udvvrtlied prlc w l douclas 3 shoe 0e nt f l e r men 1 "" alf m.-:ivy laced c;rain ami t'reod moor u'ati'rurooc , . llÂ«~t in i|,i world kinmlne 1,1 *;â€¢.Â«Â« gen tine ii an d si a iii l.t'oe i ,>Â»> iiam1-siÂ£\vki will mltlv k|.r,o i'oi.icp and i ainu its si-.oe p â€¢â€¢â– "' i i i;a vai.uk < ai r smok â€¢â– ' -'â€¢". \ s woiikinomkn's shoks 83.011 and 81.7s isoys school mioe8 1.78 siiok fok misses li.kt material hint style 15 i s . i tin garrcl it was resting in the bottom of a trunk . an tit years il had been hidden in the dcepcsl iuniin-r slink as \ raise it slowly gently h!tic leafs rushed to niv rve !- < > r it irtottght ba k tecohettton \ which though sleeping never diesi ; as 1 pressed my lips iipdh it k soft n voice v itliin il spoke . it nl first seemed misty dfeatttjr rut at last it full awoke " whefe and why ] pray you toll we ; at i resting quiet nov 1 $ and the w.i in which i came liofe â– w ill i mi please inform hie how 1 " y oil were placet hete by your master \\ hen he round no use for you and why i'd have you toll me could 1 nothing further do ? i â€¢â– did i not through toilsome marches ever stay dose by hi side '.' i)iil i not the scorching sunshine and the bitter blast abide " did i ever brink from bullets 1 > i < 1 i ever seem to fvar when the bayonets clashed around me or tin bomb shells bursted near â€¢â– was 1 not it faithful servant 1 will 1 not my duty well ? why then am i thus discarded ? i entreat you now to tell " tis because the war is over y/es the fighting all is done : for the northern army conquered and the country now u one 1 i â€¢â€¢ well luit where are lee and jackson with their rrmics strong and brave j they have fought their linul battle k they nr 1 sleeping in their graves but not all not all most surely ? rr there not a number left who have not with courage parted jf a nd are not of honor reft '.' \ cannot these with southern valor \ i sw cep the land from sea to sea and from ev'ry hated foeman \ thus the southern nation free r i ; â€¢â– but the south is not a nation i ami tiii war is long since o'er 1 and i tell you peace is reigning 'â€¢ through the land from shore to shore 'â– did ray ma3ter e'er surrender \ sure he died upon the field ; for i know that he would never , for a moment deign to yield f â€¢â€¢ bui he did indeed surrender i ; and lie preaches now the word \, lie s an active earnest worker in the vineyard if his lord â€¢â€¢ then you once again may fold me : ] you may let me dream again {' j for i want no peace that hinds me ,'â– with a slave's degrading chain ! i â€” â€” â€” o â– â€” â€” â€” -- to be shot at noon a true story of the late war i never mind what my business was or how 1 was betrayed and how i was gathered in enough that they bag ged me iso miles inside the enemy's lines and hustled me oil to prison at fort me henry in the balti more harbor where i was confronted ( with the charge of being a spy no matter that i had on when captured my full uniform as captain no mat ter that at my court martial trial their own officer who captured me testified that he did not take me in as a spy and that there was no work for a spy where he captured me i no matter 1 was found guilty and the sentence was read to me to be hanged as a spy on the parade ground of fort mt 1 1 en rv between the hours 1 of 12 a in and 3 p m november 3d 1863 < â– , in answer to my request that if they must kill me for the sake of honor to give me the death of a soldier they graciously changed the papers to read to be shot to death with musketry on the parade ground etc j somehow 1 did not fully compre-j lieml or adequately appreciate the situ ation for i did not feel then any more than 1 do now that death was to be my next deal i nor hail i at all contemplated that result all through the trial only the last day before the sentence was read to me i had been creating merriment by asking puzzling or irrelevant ques â€¢ tions of the judge advocate telling i jokes during the recesses of the oourt r in divers manners creating fun tod raw | . rairth-for myself out of the barren ; rock " military justice only the ' d iv before the president of the court martial the colonel of the regiment 12 of whose officers composed my adjudi cators asked to talk a little with me [ in private as between man and man l " of course i " captain said he i greatly fear j you do not properly appreciate your i present situation & well colonel i know of no man more favorably situated to realize it â€¢ why do you say so " l 'â€¢ because ir your life is at stake in this trial | well i â€¢â€¢ well you'll be found guilty most assuredly of the charge b weil k " you'll be sentenced to die fj well i and vou'll be hanged or shot and here you have been spending the leisure j hums of the court trying you for your i life in frivolous jesting and mirth a a fellow nÂ«an it grieves me to see you carelessly playing at s 1 terrible a brink us you stand on 11 colonel was th<3 reply u t thank you for yoi\r interest if we are nation al enemies \ on speak as a man and a soldier hut let me say this now i canttot explain what induced me to mak the following foolish braggish speech but it bubbled up and was spoken Â») oolonek vou or t may die before hight - we do not know but insofar as your courts finding is concerned ijj shall 1)0 alive when you and yourjj twelve officers are dead and forgotten 1 '! he left me in disgust and i don'ta blame him hut such was my feeling i did not feel it in my bones as the slang goes that death was so near i the colonel and the entire twelve composing the court died before i wast exchanged shot to death in one charge at cold harbor i live to write the occurrence 20 years after the con-g yersation | it may or may not be true when the grim monster singles out his victim he sends him in some way a spiritual pre monition that he is g'Â»ing to let fly | from death's quiver the fatal dart be that as it may i had no premoni . tiou of death * j not when they stood me up to hear niv sentence and to answer nor after ward in the cool contemplation my silent dungeon afforded not when thel officer of the day on that eventfu 1 ex-g edition morning read to me in my dungeon the days program and de-j lineated my doom to the hands of 12 detailed soidiers he found me ivhis-l tling as i paced my narrow cell thatg morning and exclaimed in surprise good god captain what kind of n man are you " u '" oh 1 don't know skin and honejj flesh and sinews blood and bile.b why f " why don't you know you are tol be shot to-day outside here are â– twelve men detailed to scud you into eternity you'll never see another morning and you are whistling " well why not whistle as long nsf possible and cry when you cannot laugh 1 | j hence i may not lie able to tell vf"i just how a man feels who stares death calmly in the face for may be i did t not comprehend my situation | : i hut 1 was sentenced to death that i ii fully comprehend when hey marched i hip handcuffed between two guards | with arms at charged and bayonets fix ed back to the prison and instead of my former 12x12 cell barred nd bolt ed me in a dark underground dungeon 1,3x10 feet with a tub occupying twos feet of that sparse space significantly suggestive that i w;ts to stay i"ighlj Â£ there until the day and hour $ the sentence was fully realized dur-j ; ing the sunless days and no darker inighfcs of the weeks that followed the post chaplain's was the only hn-i small voice i heard for weeks and his lonly once for my levity shocked him j*so that he gave me up as an unredeera-i fable reprobate 1 le offered a prayer for i courteously kneeling with himl the same floor hut lie never camel again he told me â€” what my occasionally i fallowed letters from my friends had iplainly informed me â€” that there was ino hope for escape from the fate that f seemed to them and the outside world to be staring me in the face every possible effort had been made every | influence pressed into service g with the president and he had positive ly declined interfering with the judg iinent of the court martial the words of the chaplain corroborated their sadj said he | captain you should prepare for fdeath for your life ends in a few days | finally it came shall i ever forgets ithat november morning in 1863 they had told me i should be taken | out at 0 o'clock in the morning and | fjwould be allowed an officer's room j | in the barracks where my parents j f sisters and brothers would meet and spend the last moments with me | when taken out they had to seat me in the outer guard room a quarter of i ian hour until my eyes became accus tomed to thepiep ing glare of sunshine then they took me to the room ; i where i found father mother sisters brother8 and a minister it was the ? quarters of an officer of the post and very comfortably furnished i lust outside we could see them ; through the window â€” stood a specials detail of twelve men selected as the lunwilliug executors of the condemned small | 1 telling me that i should live untiljj the last minute before 3 o'clock butj j then would have to go the colonel | â€¢ locked the door and left me with myl friends f 4 they had secured the privilege of jj ? spending these last hours with me â€” ij r knew to comfort and console perhaps Â« to strengthen me for the fearful ordeal through which 1 had to pass hut 1 f had to console them mv father was broken down it | must be a horrid strain on a father's \ feelings to sit and look at his son in the prime of manhood and count off the few intervening minutes of that boy's remaining life i brothers and sisters could only gaze at me in speechless misery appalled by the gloom v shadow of death that was : then casting about me i 1 hud to become consoler and strain * cd every nerve called forth every pow er to smile 1 would not permit the trembling man of god to offer prayer knowing that his words would fall upon those loving ears as death wails as clods falling on my coftin i drew them by everything interesting i could think of to contemplate anything but the impending doom as i was about to proceed the little clock on the mantel would strike or a footstep on the stair outside or some movement of the garrison would recall them with a sigh to the horrid present the little clock on the mantel seemed to me in these intervals to tick as loud ly as the clatter of a mill it struck the half hours as well as the full stroke and it seemed to me its little whirr would buzz and the tiny hammer strike every five minutes 10 10:80 11 11:30 12 12:30 1 heavens how it ticked off the sec onds galloped the seconds and startled our pained ears with those fleeting half hours we were seated around the room close to each other as we could get father on one side of me mother on the other a hand clasped by each as the little monitor on the mantel broke the gathering stillness with its metal voice crying the half hours gone just then a step sounded without a hand touched the knob the key turned in the lock the door was thrown open and the colonel stood looking in upon us instinctively i jumped to my feet as father and mother sprang to my side a hand upon each shoulder how rapidly thought does its office in such emergencies my thought was " their dining hour approaches and these officers wish to get through this unpleasant duty be fore dinner for a minute â€” it seemed eternity and that the little clock had ceased to tell the time â€” we stood the colonel and myself silent gazing sternly at each other he evidently expected me to speak but i did not would not at length he slowly drew from his pocket a slip of paper and saving captain 1 have just received thi jtelcgram reading while we gazed jupuii him in strained listening earnest biiess '" the execution of the sentence in thej case of captain william f gorden iss postponed until further orders by order of the president " you may stay with your friends until 3 then you must go back to â– your cell he said closing the door and left us hurriedly father drew a long trembling sigh and sank slowly to the floor where | mother had already fallen their sup-j port was gone the sudden unlonkedjj for lightning of the cloud of death the rush of relief from the horrid night mare caused a revulsion of feeling that ; made me limp as a rag weak as a dying j babe aud 1 too sank between myl parents the minister said something i didj not hear brothers and sisters knelt around as rind i heard the preacher pouring out a prayer of gratitude that ' the dark shadow of death had passed by leaving the light of life my sentence of death was commuted to imprisonment and labor during the war but it was life making odd moments pay a boy was employed in a lawyer's office and he had the daily newspaper to amuse himself with he began to study french and at the lutle desk became a fluent reader and writer off the french language he accomplish ed tin's by laying aside the newspaper and taking up something not so au.us ing but far more profitable a coachman was often obliged to wait long hours while his mistress made calls iih determined to improve the time he found a small volume containing the eclogues of virgil abut could not read it so he purchased a latin grammar day by day he istudied this and finally mastered its intricacies his mistress came behind him one day as he stood by the horses waiting for her and asked him what he was o intently reading only a bit of k virgil my lady " what ! do you read latin " a little my lady she mentioned this to her husband who insisted that david should have a teacher to instruct him in a few years david became a learned man and was for many years a useful and be loved minister of scotland a boy was told to open and shut the gates to let the teams out of an iron mine he sat on a log all day by the side of the gate sometimes an hour would pass before the teams came and this he employed so well that there was scarcely any fact in history that escaped his attention he began with a little book on english history that he found on the road having learned that thoroughly he borrowed of a niin lister " goldsmith's history of greece ', ithis good man became greatly inter jested in him nnd lent him books and was often seen sitting by bun on the flog conversiug with him about the ? people of ancient times j boys it will pay you to use your ; leisure moments well | bate rat traps with sunflower seed uf which it is said they are very fond j the mountain meadow massacre sayixg the poor chilerejs whose par en'ts were slaughtered nashville american harrison ark march 12 it is said the people of the united states are a most forgiving people i was re minded of this to-day when in com pany with a friend we called on a lady who as an infant was in the moun itain meadow massacre which is by far the most atrocious to my know ledge ever committed in the united states and of which by the present generation so little is known his tory is almost silent in regard to it and i write only to recall a few of the Â» points as a large pfr centage of the actors were originally from the state gof tennessee in april 1857 capt baker assisted iby capt fancher organized an emi sgrant party for california of near 400 souls starting from carrollton ark in the above month the country was made up principally of families but with a small contingent of stock men the entire party was thoroughly equipped with large herds of cattle and horses for breeding purposes and every wagon was drawn by splendid mules bought in tennessee and kentucky for that purpose it is said to have been the best equipped train that ever crossed the plains a number of the party had crossed before and had lands sal ready located nothing of interest occurred until ithey reached salt lake city where jjthe warm southern blood of capt haker was aroused at some remark made to one of the ladies of his party he with a bull whip vigorously pun ished the offender his keen eye soon jdetected danger and the party hastily ipulled out when be reached moun rtain meadow west of salt lake evi idences of danger were observed on severy side his experience soon con evinced him that what appeared to be cl julians was in fact mormons dis iouised he had no sooner packed his strain in a hollow square than they at 1 itacked him with great fury his men j fought like demons and brave maker j land francher were always in the thick jest of of the fight the first day he kept bis women \ sand children in the centre but on the | isecond day so many men were kil'.edg that the women were forced to take \ their place and stood the storm of bat j tie like trained veterans it is said : that a woman would pull the dead body of iipi husband out of her way ami take his place behind a wagon h-ifle in hand late in the afternoon it he mormons cut them off from water during the whole of the second and third day these brave women would divide their time between fighting the ! enemy and nursing their infants on the third day they themselves their children and their stock were almost famished with hunger and thirst the mormons made overtures iifor their surrender the gallant ha nker ottered himself if his party would be spared nothing save an absolute surrender but with the proviso of the safety of the entire party and half the stock would be listened to which capt baker reluctantly agreed to with great forebodings of danger and treachery on the part of the mormons lie stacked arms and inarched the remnant of his company out the momons forming on one side heavily armed at a given signal every mormon fired each one killing an emigrant i brave b?Â«ker and fancher being the first to fall with knife and gun they did not stop until every emigrant was dead who was old enough to give evidence women were horribly but chered while hugging their babes to their bosoms a number of infant children were left on the field and 3 were found in a wagon whose parents had been killed in a half-starved con-i dition and taken off when the news reached this section a howl of rage went up the united states government sent gen albert sidney johnson with a force to utah territory with what results history states " col mitchell of arkansas raised a regiment and tendered their services for the expedition but were refused ostensibly by the secre-i itarv of war as the government had plenty of troops but really as col.l watkins informs me that they wen afraid of the result if the arkansas boys should ever reach the 5cene of the murder indignation was at fever heat in northwest arkansas leading men conspicuous amongst them was col watkins kept the matter before fthe public but litttle however was until a few years later icol forney of - v my two papers both daily notoriety succeeded in getting an act of congress commissioning him land col mitchell to go t(j utah and look after the children the f found on reaching salt lake city that t the mormons demanded a ransom claiming that the indians had them land would not give them up uhl f paid for congress appropriated the ( money cols forney and mitchell t reached kansas city when col kÂ«Â»r iney turned the children over tu col mitchell to be delivered to friends were sent ahead infonniugl the people the day they would reach , carrol it oh whence the emigrant party had tailed ill i8o7 ft carrollton ii a small h,anjdei of pei-j haps a dozen families and no larger then but the day when the childnnf got here was a great one for that lit-1 tie village ant tennessee in isc with the assis-1 tauce of his brother and an old aimyl mule a broken express was rigged up and he again started west much poor er than when as a boy he did the samef thing thirty years before witl.o it a cent of money he left the shores of his beloved arkansas hardly had he lie come settled than he was again called to assume public trust he was de posed bv clayton but upon the ac cession of democracy was time and again honored when old age begun to bear heavily on him he voluntarily retired from an active and usefull life full of honor and high in the estima tion of h\s fellow-citizens he is now not fa.r from his 80th mile post and with a competency devotes himself to improving hi estate and reading his mind is a store-house of knowledge and is as clear and active as in youth he is jiiit-.tly and complacently wait ing for the gnm reaper to come vldettk everything comes and goes 1 o d.i in joy to-morrow in sorrow we advance we repe.it we struggle then the eternal and profound sileuce of deutb photograph of lightning ia one of the new things of the tunes cause unknown one day as we were riding through the country buck of natchez we came upon a whiteman sitting on a log with a switch in his hand while tied to a tree near by was a colored boy about l years old natural enough we stopped to inquire what it all intant ami the man replied i'm a-trying to find out what this ere nigger has done with my mewl 11 nebber seed his mewl replied the boy yes ye did ye lump o darkness 1 in giwne to give you five minutes ma fur to tell me and then i'll put on the switch who is he asked the colonel oh he hangs areund vere u do you know that he stole your mule in co'se thot is if he didn's who did xcbher dun stole his mewl pro tested the boy shet them five minutes is about up "\\ hat sort of a mule was it asked the colonel sort o small and lean and yaller k a strap around his neck sartin well he's lying dead in a ditch two miles down the road shoo dead is he he i reckoned he was dead or stole but wanted to be shore of it now doy you kin go but don't you dun git into no ich scrape again the boy went off with a grin on his face and we had been talking with til man for about five minutes when he suddenly junijÂ»ed clear of the ground and yelled what a him-haw i am to be shore yer i've dun let that nigger make a skip when 1 ortcr put on the switch till i found out what that ere mewl died of cruel business the practice of thrashing the patient ox to increase his speed or whacking him across the nose when he is desired to stop is certainly not the character ise of a good teamster any inure than the habit of yanking twitching and whipping the horse is the indication of a g 1 driver if a man addicted to this method of driving will harness himself to a rig and with his eyes blinded a harsh bit in his mouth and a person with the reins and a rawhide behind him who when he wishes him to start gives him a cut with the raw hide when he would hare the speed in creased gives him several additional cuts and when he wants him to stop yanks the reins with force enough to nearly break his jaw he will appreciate this style of driving and knowing how it is himself will doubtless correct hist method there is nothing more unreasonable or wasteful then this style of managing horses good sense requires that a horse be started urged forward and stopped by the void 1 , and that resort should never be had to the whip unless absolutely necessary a horse then knows what is required of him and the annoying and dangerous habit of suddenly starting and jumping is ayoid ed a great majority of the spatins sprains and ringbones not to speak of the heayes and numerous other horse ailments are caused by this rough and thoughless driving a marvelous lace wonder is reported as landed in the united states it is a unique specimen of embroidery and irish lace specially manufactured for the great international exhibition of 1851 at which it took a first prize lit took twelve girls twelve months to imake this perfect specimen of the old hand embroidery and lace trade of ireland the cost was 2,000 no work of to-day is so fine and exquisite as the drawn and embroidered border of this wonder the main design is t chaplet of fern leaves entwined with the rose the shamrock and the thistle the authorities say that the dura tion of a lightning hash is not infinite sinal but that the flash lasts a measur able time for example if one sets a camera in rapid vibration and exposes in it a plate so as to receive the im pression ot the flash it is found that the impressions appear widened out oil the negative showing the negative to have moved during the time the flash was in existence the best way to preserve cut flowers is to pack them in ice a good way is to pack them in a tin can covering the stem with moist cotton with a layer of wet cotton over all a much larger proportion of ordi uarv seed would germinate if more care were exercised in preparing tin seed-bed the finer the soli the better the seed will germinate srrew nails for timber are now made without cutting the metal by rolling wire of nit open hearth steel in a eries of dies until the thread is sufficiently form d we can do without any article of lttx.ury we've never had but when omse obtained it is not in human na ture to surrender it voumtaxily